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Runnin' Scared
1:15 pm
May. 24, 2013
New York News
When Stopped, White New Yorkers Almost Twice as Likely to Have Weapon Over Blacks
By Sydney Brownstone
Two studies have slammed assumptions about stop-and-frisk's effectiveness this week. On Wednesday, an NYCLU report showed that black New Yorkers have been disproportionally stopped for suspected ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
11:00 am
May. 24, 2013
New York News
Should We Be Following Hurricane Sandy Relief Money Online?
By Sydney Brownstone
Two weeks ago, the federal government gave New York City's Hurricane Sandy recovery plan the green light. With some $1.77 billion of federal funds, the city would spend more than a third on housi... More >>
Runnin' Scared
9:00 am
May. 24, 2013
New York News
Cooper Union Students Perform Leaked Transcript of Trustee Meeting
By Sydney Brownstone
In pure Cooper Union fashion, on Thursday night the students occupying president Jamshed Bharucha's office held a performative reading of the 41-page board of trustee transcript leaked by the Voi... More >>
Runnin' Scared
8:00 am
May. 24, 2013
New York News
Ray Kelly's Secret Mayoral Poll?
By Graham Rayman
As to the question of whether Ray Kelly is running for mayor, only silence emanated from One Police Plaza yesterday. But one of our spies in Brooklyn got an extremely telling call last night from ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
6:00 am
May. 24, 2013
New York News
Wendy's Shareholder Meeting Protested by Fast-Food Employees and Farmworkers
By Nick Pinto
While shareholders gathering inside the Sofitel for their annual meeting yesterday, multiple protests mobbed the sidewalks outside on West 44th Street. Outside the hotel lobby, a crowd of Fast-f... More >>
Runnin' Scared
10:25 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Tig Notaro: "It's Not Like I Take Myself Too Seriously, Like Some Kind of Truth-Teller Comedian Now"
By Laura Jayne Martin
Tig Notaro is busy. You wouldn't think 2013 would feel very busy for the comedian after the year she had in 2012. Notaro's last year seemed as though it contained a lifetime's worth of tragedy i... More >>
Runnin' Scared
8:00 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Could Make Late Entry Into Mayoral Race? That's the Chatter
By Graham Rayman
Could Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly be considering a dramatic late entry into the mayoral race? With 19 days to go before the campaign finance certification deadline, the chatter that the 71-y... More >>
Runnin' Scared
6:00 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
The Undercover Animal Cruelty Videos that Spurred Big Ag's Censorship Crusade
By Pete Kotz
This week's story, "The Ag Gag War," goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between animal rights groups and Big Agriculture. For years organizations like the Humane Society and Mercy fo... More >>
Runnin' Scared
11:30 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
NYPD Biased Against Blacks in Marijuana-Related Stops, Civil Liberties Group Analysis Suggests
By Graham Rayman
The NYPD's stop and frisk campaign led directly to the surge in low-level marijuana arrests, figures released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union show. For context, marijuana arrests are ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
9:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Muppets Are Coming to the Museum of the Moving Image
By Sydney Brownstone
Come 2014-2015, New Yorkers are going to be able to meet Miss Piggy in the ... felt. On Monday, the Museum of the Moving Image and Mayor Bloomberg announced the creation of a new gallery that wil... More >>
Runnin' Scared
7:30 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Glafira Rosales, Master Art Scammer, Busted for Duping IRS and Selling Phony Masters
By Graham Rayman
Here's a little bit of Upper East Side intrigue: a fancy dealer took it upon herself to double down and sharply increase her profit margin by selling phony paintings and duping the Internal Revenu... More >>
Runnin' Scared
6:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Weiner's in the Race, And His Campaign Ad Is Remarkably Unsexy
By Sydney Brownstone
The better-than-rumor rumors are true: We have a Weiner in the mayoral race, and he has 64 reasons why, according to the debut campaign ad. ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
2:25 pm
May. 21, 2013
New York News
West Village March for Mark Carson Came Out in Full Force
By Sydney Brownstone and Nick Pinto
More than 1,500 people marched through the West Village yesterday evening in response to the death of Mark Carson, who was killed Friday night by a man who, according to the police, said "look at... More >>
Runnin' Scared
12:00 pm
May. 21, 2013
New York News
Mayoral Underdog Sal Albanese Says Other Candidates Are Exploiting Taxpayers
By Sydney Brownstone
You've never heard of Sal Albanese? It's his third time running for mayor, but the 63-year-old candidate, who is no stranger to calling out politicians on their bullshit, has generally maintained... More >>
Runnin' Scared
11:11 am
May. 21, 2013
New York News
NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Joins Anti-Administration Drumbeat With No-Confidence Vote
By Nick Pinto
The wave of faculty dissatisfaction at New York University continues to roll on. After the School of Arts and Sciences voted in favor of a statement of no confidence in President John Sexton and h... More >>
Runnin' Scared
10:37 am
May. 21, 2013
New York News
3 NYU Researchers Charged With Giving Away Secrets to China
By Sydney Brownstone
Forget self-deportation: It appears the feds have stumbled across a case of secret self-outsourcing at New York University. On Monday, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bh... More >>
Runnin' Scared
6:00 am
May. 21, 2013
New York News
Is a Richer City Making the Suburbs Poorer?
By Sydney Brownstone
A new study from the Brookings Institution shows that poverty in American suburbs increased by 64 percent over the last decade, more than twice the rate of poverty growth in cities. In the New Y... More >>
Runnin' Scared
11:30 pm
May. 20, 2013
New York News
Announcing the Winners of the 2013 Village Voice Obie Awards
By Village Voice staff
The 58th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, celebrating achievement in the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater, were given out at a ceremony tonight at Webster Hall. The awards ceremony was ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
4:40 pm
May. 20, 2013
New York News
Activists to Hold a Non-Quinn-Affiliated March for Mark Carson Outside St. Vincent's Hospital
By Sydney Brownstone
Expressing the LGBTQ community's grief and outrage following the murder of Mark Carson in the West Village on Friday, several LGBTQ groups are co-sponsoring a rally held at the LGBT Community Cen... More >>

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